Danger on the Great Lakes by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2003-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

8

The Real Laura Houston

All of a sudden, the door clicked open, revealing a startled elderly man.

“How did you two get in here?” he demanded.

“We were just looking around, and the door shut on us,” George said.

“It must have been a draft,” Nancy said. “Sorry. We’re going to miss our ship if we don’t hurry.”

“There’s no draft in here!” the man shouted at them as Nancy and George raced toward the front entrance to the store. “This building is as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar!”

In the distance they heard the ship’s horn sounding.

“Oh, George!” Nancy shouted. “It’s leaving!”

George picked up her speed, leaving Nancy a few paces behind. “I’ll stop it!” she shouted.

They finally had the ship in sight, but the gangway was being pulled up.

“Stop! Stop!” George screamed. Both she and Nancy started waving their hands.

At last one of the crewmen saw them, shouted something to the men on the shore, and the gangway was lowered back to the ground.

Nancy and George reached the gangway, raced onto the ship, and fell against one of the railings.

“You’re lucky one of the crew saw you.”

Nancy managed to look up, in between gasps for air. The captain was giving them both a stern look.

“We got locked in a room in the basement of one of the shops,” George told him. “We didn’t do this on purpose.”

“Well, try not to cut it so close next time,” the captain said. “We have a schedule to keep.”

With that, he and one of his officers resumed their conversation.

Nancy was slowly getting her breath back. She looked over at George, who didn’t seem to have been fazed at all by the run to the ship.

“Come on, George. I’m worried about Bess,” Nancy said. “We need to go check on her.”

“Why are you worried about her?” George said as they hurried toward the clinic.

“Getting locked inside that room was no accident,” Nancy explained. “Someone did that to us deliberately.”

When the girls reached the clinic, they discovered that Bess had been discharged a short time before and had gone back to their suite.

“She’s managing quite well on her crutches,” the nurse told them. “In fact, she probably won’t even need them in a few days.”

Nancy and George raced back toward the elevator and took it to deck 5.

They found Bess propped up in her bed.

“Thank goodness!” Bess cried when she saw them. “When your cell phone didn’t answer, I thought something had happened to you. Especially after what I heard.”

“What did you hear?” Nancy asked.

“Well, the clinic released me right before the passengers started reboarding the ship,” Bess explained. “I was just about to go around a corner so I could take the elevator to our deck when I heard Craig and Amber laughing about something.” She paused. “At first it sounded sort of like a romantic thing, if you know what I mean, and I didn’t want to interrupt them. So I stopped. I thought Craig might be giving her a kiss. Instead, I heard Amber say something like, That should take care of them!’ I was hoping to hear more, but they started walking again.

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